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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Prodigal Son: Coming Home | April 13, 2026
- In that smoking circle.
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- There was someone who taught bible,
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- A bible teacher in a church,
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- And he was out there smoking a cigaret.
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- A friend came up and said, well, that's good, let's go in.
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- Let's go to church. it's already started.
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- We're late.
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- He said, well, let me finish this cigaret.
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- He said, well, why don't you go in in church
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- And finish the cigaret in there?
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- He said, well, i wouldn't smoke in the temple of god.
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- And his friend said, now wait a minute.
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- He said, the temple of god is not in the auditorium,
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- Said, you are the temple of god,
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- And you have a cigaret attached to that temple of god.
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- Incidentally, that was the last cigaret
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- That man ever smoked.
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- The temple of god wasted.
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- Life moves and seasons.
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- Their mountaintop moments of joy.
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- And their valleys.
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- Where faith is tested.
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- But just as winter gives way to spring,
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- No season lasts forever.
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- The bible tells us there is a time
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- For every purpose under heaven.
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- So whatever season you're walking through right now,
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- Trust this god is in the middle of it.
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- God is present in it, and he is shaping
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- You and me in this season and will carry us beyond it.
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- Change is a part of life,
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- But the faithfulness of god never varies.
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- It never changes.
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- Thank you for joining me today on the winning
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- Walk.
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- William blake,
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- One of our classical poets, has
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- In one of his presentations
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- A picture of a little man
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- Who's standing at the foot of a ladder
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- That goes all the way up to heaven.
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- And the little man
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- Says, with arms extended.
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- I want, i want.
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- Now the question is,
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- What did he want?
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- We don't know.
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- But i think that pretty well describes so many of us.
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- We're saying, i want that describes
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- Adam and his tribe, so many people in the bible.
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- It describes a lot of us.
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- There is a restlessness.
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- There is a need.
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- There is an emptiness.
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- We're saying, i want and we see this
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- And the fabulous story of the prodigal son.
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- And we see such a parallel here.
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- It's what's happening right today
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- In the world in which we live.
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- Look at it.
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- And then he said, a certain man had two sons,
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- Harry and william,
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- And the youngest of them said to his father, father,
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- Give me the portion of the goods that falls to me.
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- So he divided them his livelihood.
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- And not many days after the younger son,
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- Harry gathered all together
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- And journeyed to the far country.
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- Look at it,
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- He says.
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- Give me
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- In that our society give me.
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- I'm entitled to that.
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- Give me my inheritance.
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- Give me the money that i will come when you die. dad.
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- And by the way, the wills were already established
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- In that day.
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- The older son got two thirds of the inheritance.
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- The younger son got one third here.
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- The younger son says, give me that which i have.
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- I want to be free.
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- I want to run my own life.
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- I don't want to hang around with you.
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- I don't want to stay at home and have to live with you.
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- And that stuff shirted brother of mine, that older brother.
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- I want to go out and live my own life.
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- Give me then.
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- That sound like us?
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- Man, you're in america.
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- You're entitled to all this stuff.
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- I'm, for example, now they're saying about where
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- We're going to pay off
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- All the debt of all of those who've gone to college.
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- Boy, they're just
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- Overwhelmed with debt.
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- Now, there's a problem there.
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- Some of us send our kids to school.
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- We saved money.
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- We sacrificed,
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- And they worked their way through school, as i did.
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- And now those who just went on and took a four year
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- Curriculum and stretch it into eight years
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- And ran up a big bill, and now they owe money for it.
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- And those of us who worked our way
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- Through and sacrificed to send our kids through.
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- Doesn't seem right.
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- Fair that we pay for those who did not deserve it.
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- But i'm entitled to it.
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- There's an entitlement here.
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- You know i'm an american.
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- I'm entitled to all of this.
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- Give me.
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- That's who we are.
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- Give me, give me, give me.
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- Sad, isn't it?
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- Some of us go through life like that, i deserve.
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- I have earned.
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- I'm a part of this.
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- Give me. that was a prodigal.
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- That was a prodigal.
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- Give me my inheritance.
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- I'm a member of the lucky jean club,
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- And i didn't do anything to deserve it.
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- But i don't want any responsibility to the father.
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- I want to live my life the way i want to live it.
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- Give me freedom.
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- And he went to the far country.
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- Where was that?
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- Corinth.
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- Rome? babylon.
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- We don't know.
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- Where is the far country?
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- The far country, ladies and gentlemen, is
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- Someone who's living their life
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- Without any reference to god.
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- Any part of my life, any part of your life.
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- And no reference to god there.
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- We've located the far country.
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- Oh! give me, i want freedom.
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- Independence to determine how i am to live.
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- I want to run my own life.
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- That started in the garden.
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- And it continues today and is pictured
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- Tragically in the story the prodigal son.
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- Give me
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- I know a lot of people
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- Who start out in life.
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- They want to climb, they want to go.
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- They want to get, they want to mount
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- And they push people aside.
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- They run over folks, they step on people,
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- And they get higher and higher.
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- And sometimes they reach a certain degree and they find
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- Now i've got it.
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- And they opened that which they had set their life on,
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- And they discover it's an empty box.
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- It happens all the time.
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- Always.
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- It's going to be tomorrow
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- Is when i'm going to get it together.
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- It is tomorrow.
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- I remember as a little guy to think, that boy,
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- When i go to the first grade,
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- I mean, i'm going to be somebody.
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- I look forward to going to school in the first grade.
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- I, you know,
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- I look forward
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- To getting out of elementary school
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- And being able to go to junior high.
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- Man, i would be a junior high student.
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- Look at me.
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- And then through junior high, i want to go to high school
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- And well, and i graduated high school.
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- Then i can go and enroll and work my way through college.
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- I had
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- Saved and prepared for that, and when i got out of college,
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- I would have a vocation and i would get married.
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- And when that happened and i'd have children.
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- Oh, that is wonderful.
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- And all of a sudden you have grandchildren.
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- Then that wonderful moment of the empty nest.
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- Is there a better moment
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- Than that parrot you don't even know?
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- An empty nest.
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- And then you prepare for life,
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- And you go up and up and say, well, lord, i want give me.
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- But it's never quite all there.
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- And you look at the story of the prodigal son.
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- You'll be amazed to count the number of personal pronouns
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- I, i, i.
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- Me me me i'm i, i empty box.
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- Give me.
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- I'm entitled.
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- How do we take our influence
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- And use it for the kingdom of god?
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- In this broken world.
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- This upside down world in which we live.
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- But look what happened to the prodigal.
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- And he journeyed to the far country.
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- And there he wasted.
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- That's the operative word.
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- His possessions with prodigal living.
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- And when he had spent all, there arose
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- A severe famine in that land.
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- And he began to be in want.
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- And then he
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- Went and joined himself to a citizen of the far country,
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- And he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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- Can you imagine a jew feeding the pigs?
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- Can you imagine that?
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- How low can they get?
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- And he would gladly have filled his stomach
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- With the pods that the swine didn't eat.
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- I don't know
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- If you know much about pigs, but they eat everything.
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- But can you imagine?
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- He lived on the basis of what
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- The pigs did not eat.
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- And no one gave him anything
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- Wasted.
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- That describes so many lives today.
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- Wasted, thrown away, breathing air, consuming goods.
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- A life that is wasted.
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- A life that is not functioning.
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- A life is not using the influence
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- That god has given them.
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- We're beginning this year calling on all of us,
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- The family of god, to use our influence
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- To bring people to god, to christ at church
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- So they can experience a brand new life and come out
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- Of that far country in which so many people are now living,
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- Come out of that far country.
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- You see, the prodigal, i guarant
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- He did not look to god except
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- When he had an empty stomach, except when he was sick,
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- Except when he was
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- At the bottom of the rung, as far as his vocation is up.
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- And that's the greatest preachers in the world.
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- When we get that bad diagnosis, when we get something
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- That's unexpected, when harm and pain
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- Come to our lives, then and then only do we look up.
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- That's exactly what he did.
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- And he looked up.
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- He looked up to god,
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- And he sought to worship
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- Him, to will discover, to go back home.
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- Because now he was home sick.
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- That's what this was.
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- There was a home sickness there,
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- A strong, strong thing.
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- A lot of people have the idea that when you come
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- In this place that this is a sanctuary.
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- We're not in the sanctuary.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, when auditorium ordo,
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- Meaning voice toro means bull.
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- It's where the bull expresses himself.
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- It's an order. torium.
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- You hear and you speak.
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- But when you and i walked in this place, as we are
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- In christ, we were the sanctuary.
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- Your life is a sanctuary.
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- My life is a sanctuary.
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- The sanctuaries walk into this
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- Auditorium in the old testament.
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- Where did you find god?
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- In the tabernacle.
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- In the temple.
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- You're kind of.
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- That's where god
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- Dwelled in the new testament when the church came in to be.
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- Where do you find god?
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- It's in your life.
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- It's in my life.
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- Christ in you, christ in me.
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- There's the sanctuary.
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- There is the temple of god.
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- When i first came
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- To second years ago,
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- We had smoking circles all around the church.
- 00:12:47.056 --> 00:12:49.959
- Remember those?
- 00:12:49.959 --> 00:12:51.227
- Oh, there'd be men smoking.
- 00:12:51.227 --> 00:12:52.995
- Have the bible study smoking circled all around the church.
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- I can tell you,
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- All of those men that i knew there
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- In those days, they're all dead.
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- I can guarantee you that. every one of them.
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- I can name names in that smoking circle.
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- There was someone
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- Who taught bible, a bible teacher in a church,
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- And he was out there smoking a cigaret.
- 00:13:12.615 --> 00:13:14.617
- A friend came up and said, well, that's good, let's go in.
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- Let's go to church. it's already started.
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- We're late.
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- He said, well, let me finish this cigaret.
- 00:13:20.589 --> 00:13:22.791
- He said, well, why don't you go in in church
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- And finish the cigaret in there?
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- He said, well, i wouldn't smoke in the temple of god.
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- And his
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- Friend said, now wait a minute.
- 00:13:34.270 --> 00:13:36.705
- He said, the temple of god is not in the auditorium,
- 00:13:36.705 --> 00:13:39.875
- Said, you are the temple of god,
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- And you have a cigaret attached to that temple of god.
- 00:13:42.244 --> 00:13:46.515
- Incidentally, that was the last cigaret
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- That man ever smoked.
- 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:53.322
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:13:53.956 --> 00:13:56.959
- But let's be honest.
- 00:13:56.959 --> 00:13:58.460
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
- 00:14:53.649 --> 00:14:54.783
- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- The temple of god wasted.
- 00:15:28.117 --> 00:15:31.487
- Where's the far country?
- 00:15:32.021 --> 00:15:33.288
- Anybody or any part in your life?
- 00:15:33.288 --> 00:15:36.091
- In my life that's not seeking to be lived in accordance
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- And in reference to god.
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- Give me
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- Wasted running my own life.
- 00:15:46.568 --> 00:15:49.571
- And then finally, this last section,
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- It says the prodigal came to himself.
- 00:15:52.808 --> 00:15:56.111
- That is a great phrase.
- 00:15:56.111 --> 00:15:57.980
- In other words, he was not himself.
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- Now he came to himself and look what he did.
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- Verse 17 but when he came to himself, he said,
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- How many of my father's hired
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- Servants have bread enough and despaired?
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- I perish with hunger.
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- I will arise and go to my father and say
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- To him, father, i have sinned against heaven,
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- And before you no longer worthy to be called your son,
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- Make me as one of your hired servants.
- 00:16:25.107 --> 00:16:28.811
- He started off with, give me, give me.
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- That's magic, isn't it?
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- That's magic.
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- Jesus in
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- The wilderness, the devil said, hey,
- 00:16:37.186 --> 00:16:39.354
- Turn those stones into bread, jump off the temple, jump
- 00:16:39.354 --> 00:16:42.891
- Off the mountain, and everybody will perform magic tricks.
- 00:16:42.891 --> 00:16:46.495
- Jesus and boy, you'll get your life together.
- 00:16:46.495 --> 00:16:49.698
- He rejected that.
- 00:16:49.698 --> 00:16:52.000
- That is magic.
- 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:53.202
- A lot of people think being a christian is magic.
- 00:16:53.202 --> 00:16:56.171
- I prayed a little prayer,
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- I was baptized, therefore it doesn't matter
- 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.410
- What i do, i'm going right to heaven.
- 00:17:01.410 --> 00:17:04.513
- Salvation by formula.
- 00:17:04.513 --> 00:17:06.715
- What does it mean when we pray that prayer?
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- What do we pray i receive in my life?
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- Jesus as my lord, not as my savior.
- 00:17:11.453 --> 00:17:16.358
- He's our lord, and then he becomes our savior.
- 00:17:16.358 --> 00:17:19.661
- In other words,
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- I receive him and ask him to run my life lordship.
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- That's where we begin that relationship
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- With the father that jesus provides for us.
- 00:17:26.768 --> 00:17:30.339
- He is lord of our lives.
- 00:17:30.873 --> 00:17:33.542
- Now it's not give me, it's lord, make me.
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- And that's a miracle.
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- That's a miracle.
- 00:17:38.847 --> 00:17:39.848
- He comes in and makes you and makes me over
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- And turned us around.
- 00:17:42.317 --> 00:17:43.752
- He says, i will arise.
- 00:17:43.752 --> 00:17:45.721
- Get up out of the pig pen and i will go to my father.
- 00:17:45.721 --> 00:17:49.458
- And he put together a little speech.
- 00:17:49.458 --> 00:17:51.693
- It's a wonderful speech.
- 00:17:51.693 --> 00:17:53.762
- He said, father, i have sinned against heaven
- 00:17:53.762 --> 00:17:56.231
- And against god, and i have sinned against you.
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- I'm not worthy to be called your boy again.
- 00:17:59.668 --> 00:18:02.771
- I'm not worthy to be your son again.
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- Make me as one of the hired servants.
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- I hired a servant
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- For those who just come in and work for a while,
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- And they'd be fired or they'd move on.
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- Not an indentured servant, not a bond.
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- Just the lowest.
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- Lowest part of the father's payroll.
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- Make me as a hired servant.
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- I'm not worthy.
- 00:18:22.824 --> 00:18:24.593
- So he came to himself.
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- Anybody here need to come by yourself?
- 00:18:27.062 --> 00:18:28.697
- Wake up, look around and say, hey, i'm not there.
- 00:18:28.697 --> 00:18:33.368
- He came to himself.
- 00:18:33.368 --> 00:18:34.603
- He got up and he went back and retraced his path.
- 00:18:34.603 --> 00:18:39.541
- And he was heading home because he was home sick.
- 00:18:39.541 --> 00:18:43.812
- And the bible says when he was a great way
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- Off in that great long way of the father
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- Looking up that road, couldn't recognize his son, his face.
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- But he knew how he stood.
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- He knew how he walked.
- 00:18:57.159 --> 00:18:59.194
- And here we have in the bible
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- The only place a picture of god
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- Running.
- 00:19:06.134 --> 00:19:08.637
- God's never in a hurry.
- 00:19:08.637 --> 00:19:09.871
- If you notice, we wish he'd hurry up sometime. don't.
- 00:19:09.871 --> 00:19:12.541
- But he never gets in a hurry.
- 00:19:12.541 --> 00:19:13.842
- But here we see god
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- Running the picture of the father running to greet
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- That boy, and the boy has his little little sermon ready.
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- He said, father, i have
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- Sinned against heaven, and before you.
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- I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
- 00:19:26.455 --> 00:19:29.091
- But before he can say, make me as a hired servant,
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- His dad had him embraced.
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- And with tears and tears
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- The father said,
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- Bring a robe and put it on.
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- My boy.
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- Pretty back.
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- As a member of the family, the robe will identify that
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- And bring a ring, a signet ring for his finger.
- 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.983
- That's credit cards, that's all.
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- The statue.
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- That's all he needed to make it.
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- Bring a family ring and put it on him and put shoes on.
- 00:19:59.621 --> 00:20:03.492
- You see, slaves are barefooted.
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- Sons and daughters wear shoes.
- 00:20:05.861 --> 00:20:08.430
- And he said, we're going to have a party at the father.
- 00:20:08.430 --> 00:20:12.167
- He said, my son, who was who was dead, is alive,
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- And he was lost,
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- And he's been found.
- 00:20:19.041 --> 00:20:21.343
- And they had a celebration
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- In this world that was out of this world,
- 00:20:23.912 --> 00:20:28.050
- Man, the grace of god.
- 00:20:28.517 --> 00:20:31.019
- Let me tell you the kind of church we have here.
- 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:34.056
- We have our church here that anybody can come
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- From any background, any situation,
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- If they come from prison or they come from
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- The highest places of prestige in this whole country.
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- Anybody who comes here anywhere, any white, any place,
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- Any country, any understanding, any brokenness, any sin
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- Where the church, where we say, welcome home,
- 00:20:54.843 --> 00:20:57.813
- You are a part of us.
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- We're glad you're here.
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- That's who we are.
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- The second family.
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- G.w. robeson
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- Was on a train years ago,
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- And he was moving along.
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- He noticed across the aisle from him was a young man,
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- Middle 20s.
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- This young man, he noticed, would get up and walk around
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- And he would look out the windows.
- 00:21:29.911 --> 00:21:31.513
- And he was very restless.
- 00:21:31.513 --> 00:21:33.014
- And he said he watched him.
- 00:21:33.014 --> 00:21:34.783
- And finally g.w.
- 00:21:34.783 --> 00:21:36.551
- Looked over at him and said, son,
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- Is something wrong?
- 00:21:39.488 --> 00:21:40.889
- I notice you're really nervous and on the edge.
- 00:21:40.889 --> 00:21:44.493
- He said, yes, sir.
- 00:21:44.493 --> 00:21:46.695
- He said, any way i could help you?
- 00:21:46.695 --> 00:21:48.397
- He said, i don't know.
- 00:21:48.397 --> 00:21:50.599
- He said, i don't mind telling you what's wrong.
- 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.702
- He said, five years ago or so
- 00:21:53.702 --> 00:21:57.139
- I was at home with my family, a teenager
- 00:21:57.139 --> 00:22:00.475
- Said i hadn't been living the way my dad,
- 00:22:00.475 --> 00:22:02.577
- My mom, wanted me to.
- 00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:03.979
- I was in total rebellion.
- 00:22:03.979 --> 00:22:07.082
- And he said, i got in an argument with my folks.
- 00:22:07.082 --> 00:22:09.551
- There was profanity, and he said, i pushed my dad down.
- 00:22:09.551 --> 00:22:13.922
- He said, my father get up and said, get out of this house.
- 00:22:13.922 --> 00:22:17.859
- Your mother and i never want to see you again.
- 00:22:17.859 --> 00:22:19.861
- You're not welcome here.
- 00:22:19.861 --> 00:22:21.163
- You're not my son any longer.
- 00:22:21.163 --> 00:22:22.664
- Get out of here. and he said, i got a
- 00:22:22.664 --> 00:22:25.333
- I got my stuff.
- 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:26.768
- And i left.
- 00:22:26.768 --> 00:22:29.538
- He said, i went out
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- And did some odd jobs, moved away.
- 00:22:31.006 --> 00:22:34.042
- He said i ended up joining a gang.
- 00:22:34.776 --> 00:22:37.512
- He said,
- 00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:38.947
- I don't want to tell you about all the things that we did
- 00:22:38.947 --> 00:22:41.082
- So doing.
- 00:22:41.383 --> 00:22:41.950
- We had a master plan to
- 00:22:41.950 --> 00:22:44.820
- Commit this robbery, but he said
- 00:22:45.554 --> 00:22:47.589
- We were caught in the act and i was sentenced under age.
- 00:22:47.589 --> 00:22:51.927
- I got only two years
- 00:22:51.927 --> 00:22:54.229
- And he said, i got out about a year ago.
- 00:22:54.229 --> 00:22:57.799
- He said, i wrote my folks a little notes every month
- 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:01.970
- Or so, never telling them what was going on in my life.
- 00:23:01.970 --> 00:23:05.106
- But he said, i wrote a note about two weeks ago
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- And told my folks that i'd be on this train
- 00:23:08.443 --> 00:23:11.780
- And i'd be coming this way
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- On this particular train on this particular day.
- 00:23:14.449 --> 00:23:17.519
- And he said,
- 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:18.620
- That train goes right by our little farmhouse today.
- 00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:23.091
- I told my folks if they wanted me to
- 00:23:23.091 --> 00:23:24.960
- Get off at the next station,
- 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.496
- And they'd let me come home one more time
- 00:23:28.330 --> 00:23:30.866
- And look at their face one more time, he said.
- 00:23:30.866 --> 00:23:33.568
- If they let me do that, to take a just a white cloth
- 00:23:33.568 --> 00:23:37.572
- Or a rag of some kind and just hide on the mailbox
- 00:23:37.572 --> 00:23:40.775
- It from the train, i would see it and i would know
- 00:23:40.775 --> 00:23:43.512
- That i could go back home,
- 00:23:43.512 --> 00:23:46.381
- He said.
- 00:23:46.381 --> 00:23:47.182
- We're coming around that curve.
- 00:23:47.182 --> 00:23:49.818
- He said, sir, i don't know if i can look
- 00:23:49.818 --> 00:23:52.621
- To see if that little white cloth is there.
- 00:23:52.621 --> 00:23:55.423
- He said, i'm just, i'm just very emotional.
- 00:23:55.423 --> 00:23:59.694
- And g.w.
- 00:23:59.961 --> 00:24:00.795
- Said, son, you just sit over there,
- 00:24:00.795 --> 00:24:03.031
- I'll look for you and i'll tell you
- 00:24:03.031 --> 00:24:05.267
- If i see that little white cloth on the mailbox,
- 00:24:05.267 --> 00:24:08.136
- And then you'll know you can get off and go home,
- 00:24:08.136 --> 00:24:10.338
- You just look the other way.
- 00:24:10.338 --> 00:24:11.439
- I'll let you know.
- 00:24:11.439 --> 00:24:13.074
- And he said, sure enough, the train came around the tracks.
- 00:24:13.074 --> 00:24:15.844
- He said he could see
- 00:24:15.844 --> 00:24:17.212
- A little house in the distance by the tracks.
- 00:24:17.212 --> 00:24:20.148
- He said the closer he got to, he saw
- 00:24:20.148 --> 00:24:23.451
- Not only was there a white cloth tied to the mailbox,
- 00:24:23.451 --> 00:24:27.489
- But there were white towels tied all to the fence.
- 00:24:27.489 --> 00:24:31.927
- And he said, all of them.
- 00:24:32.494 --> 00:24:34.195
- The post of the house and the side of the house,
- 00:24:34.195 --> 00:24:37.032
- And said they'd taken the white sheets
- 00:24:37.032 --> 00:24:39.034
- And they'd hung it there on the clothesline.
- 00:24:39.034 --> 00:24:41.670
- And he said, i looked at it, looked like it had snowed.
- 00:24:41.670 --> 00:24:44.839
- That little house was covered with a sea of white.
- 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.009
- And he said, out looked the young man.
- 00:24:48.009 --> 00:24:50.011
- I said, son, son, get up and look,
- 00:24:50.011 --> 00:24:54.282
- He said, he stood.
- 00:24:54.716 --> 00:24:56.885
- He got very emotional.
- 00:24:56.885 --> 00:24:59.454
- He said he couldn't say anything.
- 00:24:59.454 --> 00:25:00.855
- The boy nodded to him
- 00:25:00.855 --> 00:25:02.123
- And he got a cheap suitcase out of the top,
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- And he started down the aisle.
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- The train, he said the train slowed down
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- The next curve and said the boy didn't wait for the station.
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- He just jumped off that train,
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- He said.
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- The last time i saw him,
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- He was dragging that little cheap
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- Suitcase up the hill
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- And said, the white sheets were flapping
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- In the breeze.
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- Anybody here?
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- Away from home.
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- Away from god.
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- Is it time?
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- To come home?
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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